As the month of May draws to a close, it’s May Day for FERC’s Order 745 rule on demand response,vacated by the D.C. Circuit last week. So fittingly,this May 2014 issue of our newsletter offers an indepthreport on the court’s ruling. And there’s also around-up of firm highlights if you’re interested in what we’ve been up to since the last newsletter.

It’s been nearly five months since the DC Circuit heard oral arguments arguments on the petition for review of FERC Order 745. In case you’ve forgotten, Order 745 is FERC’s landmark rule requiring comparable treatment for demand response and generation resources by required RTOs and ISOs to pay the full wholesale price (also known as [...]

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Next week, I’ll be presenting at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Public Utility Law Conference on social media in the utilities industry. For your enjoyment, here’s the slide deck that I’ll be presenting:

It’s time for another quick round up of social media sightings in state utility commission decisions. For those unfamiliar with the round ups , I search terms like “social media,” Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter in my LEXIS public utility commission data base to see how many times they’ve been mentioned. Since I started tracking back [...]

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